Chinese Characters
Chinese characters explained.
24 Episodes
Chinese Names
The Characters Derived from Pictures
36 Chinese Hieroglyphics
Five Thousand Years of Chinese Characters
Numbers
Color
Fruit
Body Parts
How to Address Relatives
Vegetables
Verbs
Emotion
Stationery
The Origin of the Firecracker
Words for Illness
Shapes
Clothing
Professions
Transportation
Home appliances
Animals
Plants
Entertainment
The Rebirth of Chinese Characters
Chinese Characters
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1:27
Beginner
China
This video continues with the different shapes.
1:47
Beginner
China
Now let's learn about some of the things that you will wear in the winter.
1:37
Beginner
China
This video continues with terms for clothing.
1:35
Beginner
China
It's time to learn about different occupations.
1:54
Beginner
China
Let's continue with the different occupations.
1:29
Beginner
China
When you combine different Chinese characters, you can make different words. Let's now learn some terms for modes of transportation.
1:17
Beginner
China
This video continues with transportation terminology.
1:28
Beginner
China
Let's learn the names of home appliances.
1:33
Beginner
China
Let's learn some more home appliance terms.
1:09
Beginner
China
The Chinese characters for animals oftentimes look like the animals themselves.
1:28
Beginner
China
As a pictographic language, Chinese characters often look like the objects they represent.
1:47
Beginner
China
If you look at the character for elephant, one might see a representation of the elephant with a long trunk, four legs and a tail. This is why Chinese is known as a "pictographic" language.
1:42
Beginner
China
In the Chinese language, you can combine characters together to form a different word.
1:02
Beginner
China
This video talks about the Chinese words for plants.
1:12
Beginner
China
If you look at the characters related to plants, you will notice that most of them contain the "tree" or "grass" radicals.
1:35
Beginner
China
This video teaches you how to say the names of some musical instruments.
1:41
Beginner
China
This video teaches you how to say the names of some sports and hobbies.
1:22
Intermediate
China
What does typography mean to you? Why is it important?
1:38
Intermediate
China
Designing a new font is extremely difficult, especially since there are thousands of characters in the Chinese language.
1:20
Intermediate
China
Innovation of a writing system occurs by creating a better version of what already exists, which is always related to one's national heritage.
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